“‘Brain drain’ continues to be a vexing problem in Indiana and particularly in communities like Anderson, with many top students leaving for college and never coming home for a career and to start a family,” according to an editorial in the Herald Bulletin, a Madison County-based newspaper. “Purdue Polytechnic provides not only a targeted education but also promises to develop the sort of job opportunities that will keep more of the best and brightest from leaving the Anderson area.”